Alienware Drops M11x Price to $600

Alienware is looking to clean house by reducing the price of its bare-bones gaming laptop from $799 to $599a $200 decrease. The M11x does come with a caveat: The processor is three generations behind Intel's current Core i processors.

Sporting a 1.3-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo coupled with 1GB of Nvidia GeForce 335M discrete graphics, this 11.6-inch laptop will only get so far as playing games like "Starcraft II." In comparison, we reviewed the same laptop with a Core i7 last generation processor and it scored respectably on our gaming tests. On medium quality settings for our "Crysis" benchmark, it scored 32.7 frames per second; "World in Conflict" was 29fps.

Layman's terms: The Core 2 Duo Alienware M11x won't be able to play high-end games, like "Lost Planet 2" and "Crysis," which will tax the CPU on lower quality settings.

The $600 M11x comes with 2GB of memory that can be upgraded to 4GB for $50 more. There's only a 160GB 5,400rpm hard drive, which is fine if you plan to store any added media on an external hard drive. The screen will be perfect for media viewing as it displays in 720p resolution, however, there's no optical drive so your content will have to be downloaded.

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